Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

232

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-03-27

Deathday

1995-01-20 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As

Нобуо Канэко
Nobuo Kaneko

Nobuo Kaneko

Biography

Nobuo Kaneko (金子信雄 Kaneko Nobuo, 27 March 1923 – 20 January 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.

Known For

8.3%

Ikiru

Oct 9, 1952

7.2%

The Return of Godzilla

Dec 15, 1984

7.7%

Shōgun

Sep 15, 1980

8.4%

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Jan 28, 1961

6.8%

Godzilla 1985

Aug 23, 1985

7.4%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Jan 13, 1973

7.7%

Floating Clouds

Jan 15, 1955

6.9%

Youth of the Beast

Apr 21, 1963

7.4%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Apr 28, 1973

7.4%

Sound of the Mountain

Jan 15, 1954

6.8%

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Nov 17, 1964

5.9%

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

Aug 14, 1968

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Acting

1994

Father and Son Hawk

1993

Kokkai e ikô!

1991		The Great Shogunate Battle
1991		Check as Tennoji
1991		The Man Who Became The Don

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood as Yoshiyuki Kawashima

1986

Surgical Designs in Flames

1985

Godzilla 1985 as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

1984

The Return of Godzilla as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

1983

Karate Cop 2

1981

The Imperial Navy as Chuichi Nagumo

1980		The Detective Journey
1980		Shōgun as Ishido
1980		Nurse's Husband
1980		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Yoshio Yamamori
1980		Shadow Warriors as Sakai Tadakiyo

1979		Faraway Tomorrow
1979		The Shogun Assassins as Hayashi Razan
1979		Troubleman Laughs and Kills as Actor
1979		The Inferno as Emma Daio
1979		Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kokichi Asakura
1979		Down with The Big Boss
1979		Devil's Flute
1979		Kusa Moeru as Taira no Kiyomori

1978		The Fall of Ako Castle as Kira
1978		Never Give Up as Head of Mizoguchi City
1978		Dynamite Don-Don as Denjiro Hasimoto
1978		Japanese Godfather: Conclusion as Hideyoshi Hirayama
1978		Shogun's Samurai
1978		Karate Wars

1977		Japanese Godfather: Ambition as Hirano
1977		Japan's Don as Shoji Taguchi

1976		Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1976		New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976		Yakuza Graveyard as Akama
1976		Cobra 2 as Tajima

1975		正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
1975		300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
1975		Shimane Prison Riot as Torao Yoshinari
1975		The Murder Corps
1975		Cops vs. Thugs as Masaichi Tomoyasu
1975		Unified Shadows
1975		The Viper Brothers and the Young General

1974		New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974		The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Warden
1974		The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1974		Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1974		Father of the Kamikaze
1974		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Yoshio Yamamori
1974		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Yoshio Yamamori

1973		Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage as Kakutarô Shinohara
1973		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Yoshio Yamamori
1973		Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle as Senzo Ogata
1973		Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1973		Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Hadano
1973		The Hard Core Criminal
1973		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Yoshio Yamamori
1973		Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
1973		Semi-Document: Eros No Joô as Narrator
1973		Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Yoshio Yamamori
1973		Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing

1972		Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
1972		New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972		The Pledge
1972		Turtle Geisha
1972		Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972		The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang as Chief of Police

1971		The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1971		Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971		Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1971		Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner

1970		Thugs of Shinjuku
1970		The Experience
1970		Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970		The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970		King of the Night Life
1970		Postwar Secrets
1970		アッと驚く為五郎
1970		Duel at Fort Ezo
1970		A Yakuza Goes Home
1970		Woman Boss

1969		The Bad Guy Blues
1969		The Fatal Raid
1969		Samurai Geisha as Osuga
1969		The Biggest Gamble
1969		The Yakuza Awaits

1968		New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968		Living Skeleton as Suetsugu
1968		Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
1968		Rogue as Suyama
1968		Enlisted Yakuza
1968		Red Peony Gambler
1968		Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
1968		Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell as Tokuyasu
1968		Downtown Blues
1968		The Worship of the Flesh as Denbei
1968		Hot Springs Geisha as Shinagawa
1968		Curse of the Blood as Sojun
1968		Diamonds of the Andes
1968		Scoundrel
1968		Big Time Gambling Boss as Tasaburô Senba
1968		Human Torpedoes

1967		The Last Loyalty Offering
1967		The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967		Killer of Seven
1967		Gambler's World as Ushimatsu Fujii
1967		Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps as Shurinosuke Asahina
1967		Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967		Organized Violence II as Head of Department
1967		Portrait of Chieko as Sawada
1967		Portrait of Chieko as Yamazaki
1967		Dissolution Rites as Itagaki

1966		Prison Release Loyalty Offering
1966		Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1966		A Drop of Grease
1966		Rub Out the Past
1966		The Harbor of No Return
1966		Seven Gamblers
1966		Love Eternal as Aoki
1966		Dianas of the Campus
1966		Warm Current
1966		Convicted Woman
1966		Yakuza Vassal
1966		The Magic Serpent as Dôjin Hiki

1965		Color
1965		Chivalrous Life
1965		The Black Cat
1965		Nageta daisu ga ashita o yobu
1965		Flowering Maidens as Matsui

1964		Black Thief
1964		Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964		Fight, Zatoichi, Fight as Unosuke
1964		The Flower and the Sword
1964		The Glamorous Ghost as Kenji Yamakoshi
1964		The Great Duel
1964		Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office as Kansuke
1964		Black Weapon
1964		Main Street in the Underworld
1964		Edo Crime Book: Black Claws as Honda Shinpachi
1964		Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
1964		Red Handkerchief

1963		The Revenge and the Death as Kawazu
1963		Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women as Kumagai
1963		Youth of the Beast as Sôichi Ozawa
1963		The Third Shadow Warrior
1963		Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Inspector Kumagaya

1962		Namari o buchikome
1962		Ai to shi no katami
1962		Bōkyō no umi
1962		Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1962		Jūdan no arashi
1962		Moeru minamijūjisei
1962		Red Bud and White Flower
1962		Song of a Traveller
1962		Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1961		Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab as Kozo Haraguchi
1961		Wind and waves of the South as Kihei
1961		Crimson pistol belt
1961		Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961		The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961		The Plateau Man
1961		Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961		Whistling in the Darkness
1961		Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living as Katsumata
1961		Quick Draw Joe as Mishima
1961		Tokyo Knights as Mishima
1961		The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Kirihara Gôchô
1961		Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
1961		The Rambler under the Southern Cross

1960		The Rambler Rides Again
1960		The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960		Wakai toppū
1960		The Lost Diamond
1960		Return of the Vagabond
1960		Intimidation as Kyosuke Takita
1960		The Poem of the Blue Star
1960		The Law's Bloody Wounds

1959		The Age of Our Own
1959		The Rambling Guitarist as Akitsu
1959		The Wild Reporter as Funakoshi
1959		Farewell to Southern Tosa
1959		Merciless Bullet as Sawamura
1959		Kawaii Onna
1959		The Echo of Love
1959		A Man Explodes
1959		群集の中の太陽
1959		We Live Today
1959		The Praying Man as Shinichiro Kuraki
1959		Friendship of Jazz

1958		Voice Without a Shadow as Kawai
1958		Wolves of the Night
1958		The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1958		That Wonderful Guy
1958		Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
1958		Night Drum
1958		Forever, My Love as Tachio Kinumaki

1957		Man Who Causes a Storm as Toru Sakyo, the critic
1957		The Awakening
1957		The Barefoot Girl
1957		A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Denbei
1957		This Day's Life
1957		Madam
1957		Eight Hours of Terror as Kosaku Mori

1956		Lunar Eclipse
1956		Hungry Soul, Part II as Reiji Ajioka
1956		Okinawa no Tami
1956		Hungry Soul as Reiji Ajioka
1956		Summer Storm as Kido
1956		Tonari no yome
1956		Gyakukōsen
1956		Ryûri no kishi
1956		Phoenix
1956		Called to the Stand

1955		Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955		Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Sayama
1955		A Hole of My Own Making
1955		Stray Sheep as Haraguchi, the painter
1955		Till We Meet Again as Akira Mimura
1955		Floating Clouds

1954		Wakai hito-tachi
1954		Student Double Suicide
1954		Cape Ashizuri
1954		The Garden of Women as Kihei Hirato
1954		Itsuko to sono haha as Tokuji Funabashi
1954		Sound of the Mountain

1953		Red-Light Bases as Sugio Kawanabe
1953		At the End of the Clouds

1952		Vacuum Zone
1952		Ikiru as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
1952		Violence
1952		Vendetta of a Samurai

1950

The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Kashima